Gumpaste lavender makes add a wonderful botanical feel to a sugar flower arrangement and is another great one to have in your repertoire to add a pretty finishing touch to your home bakes and cakes when fresh lavender is out of season (as well as gumpaste pansies which you’ll find a tutorial for here: gumpaste pansy tutorial). It’s a simple process to create gumpaste lavender but can be time consuming if you need to make a lot of it due to all the tiny petals required. A small spray to ... Read More...
How To Speed Up Ganaching & Frosting
We all love getting to the decorating stage of cake making, but a sharp, crisp edge and smooth base is essential before we do so. One of the more frustrating aspects of cake making is coating and re-coating your cake with frosting or ganache until you get it just right. But now you can cut down on the time it takes to achieve the perfect ganache coating with the ProFroster. Designed to smooth both the top and bottom of your cake at the same time while also creating the perfect sharp edge, the ... Read More...
Father’s Day Sports Cakes: Part 2
Following on from Sports Cakes for Father's Day Part 1, in Part 2 we're looking a sports from across the pond in the UK and international favourites, starting with Leslie's Cakes fabulously designed cricket cake above decked out with sporting emblems and beautiful "etched-effect" hand drawings, above. Rugby cakes will be a big favourite with lots of dads and DeVoli Cakes "mud splashed" design below left captured the rough and tumble of the game perfectly below left. On the right, Dot Clerck ... Read More...
Christmas Cakes: Beautiful Designs
Whether rustic charm or seasonal elegance is your design preference for the holidays this year, we've got it all wrapped up this week when it comes to christmas cake design inspiration. Starting with Portugal's Have Some Sugar, Margarida Abecassis blends an elegant design motif with a rustic winter display for her fabulous christmas design, above left. On the right, Lina Veber brings her signature combination of old fashioned lace paired with stunning sugar flowers to her festive creation, ... Read More...